Block course: Physical Limnology 2025


The block course on physical limnology will be held as an in-person lecture series in 2025. The course will be held on the grounds of the University of Heidelberg, (most probably) Campus Im Neuenheimer Feld. The block course is part of the special lectures in the physics master course, and hence requires some basics about physics, mathematics and also environmental physics. Ideally, participants have attended the introductory lectures on "environmental physics". 


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In 2025, the block course will comprise the curriculum lectres by Prof. Andreas Lorke, Dr. Bertram Boehrer and  additional lectures of a guest lecturer:

- Stratification and circulation of lakes, Navier Stokes – eq.
– solutes, solubility, electrical conductivity
– density, stability and mixing, deep water renewal
– surface waves, seiche, interfacial waves
– internal waves
- properties of internal waves
- Permanent stratification, meromixis, climate sensitivity
- Turbulence I: Introduction to turbulence
- Turbulence II: Spectral characteristics and measurements
- Turbulence III: Momentum and mass transport in turbulent boundary layers
- Turbulence IV: Living in turbulence: biological – physical interactions 

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Dr. Bertram Boehrer: Lecturer at Uni-Heidelberg, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Magdeburg

Prof. Dr. Andreas Lorke: Professor at Technical University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Landau

We offer this course FREE of charge also to external participants. Students and scientists interested in attending the course are requested to enrol by email to bertram.boehrer@ufz.de no later than 1st Feb. 2025: stating name, scientific or professional affiliation / university. Heidelberg students are also requested to send their student number. For any further information, please address Bertram.Boehrer@ufz.de . There will be more information closer to the course.